Sister Helen

View Date: 7/4/09

This is a documentary about a nun who runs a sober-living home for men. I believe the home is in New York.

Sister Helen was a Benedictine nun in her late sixties who joined the sisterhood after her sons and husband died. She was also a former alcoholic, and chose to help other addicts improve their lives. Although she was, as she describes, and old Irish woman, she was feisty, had an incredibly foul mouth, and could keep those men in line.

I thought that the documentary was OK. You could tell that it was not put together chronologically because Sister Helen's hair keeps changing colors, but otherwise the production was OK. It was an interesting story, but not my favorite on the subject.

10 words or less: Interesting story of a hard life.